Return from dead to avenge death (murder)

Motif

Return from dead to avenge death (murder).

The dead. · Ghosts and other revenants. · Malevolent return from the dead. · Return from dead to inflict punishment. · view the constellation · filed as E234.3

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
general England, U.S.: *Baughman (E233).

Within the index

Filed under Ghost punishes injury received in life.

Filed beside it

Ghost returns to demand vengeance. (Cf. E232.2.) Ghost slaps face of son who cheated him out of property. A cancer grows on son's face Ghost stampedes stolen cattle being driven past his ranch Ghost an unjustly executed man. Real murderer found

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